A festive welcome party greeted the Oregon football team, complete with a mariachi band, folklorico dancers and the Sun Bowl princesses.

Now, it seemed to me that many of the players' eyes were focused on those college-aged princesses, who were named to the Sun Court in August. But when the smiling ladies tried to approach the players to dance with them, the majority of the Ducks ran off like they were Jonathan Stewart in the open field.

Sophomore running back Andre Crenshaw was among the quickest to dart away, faking like he had to go to the bathroom to escape. Many of the Ducks chosen to dance in the circle - as a large crowd watched - were younger players, with two notable exceptions.

"She was talking to me while I was dancing with her, telling me what to do," Chung said of a Sun Bowl princess. "So I was like, 'OK, I'll just follow your lead.' It was fun, and I got to learn how to do a little stutter-step. ... Of course I'm going to go dance. That's why we're here: to have fun and play the game."

Agyeman may not have been as eager as Chung to bust a move, but he also enjoyed the experience.

"I'm not trying to be dancing there, but I got grabbed into it," Agyeman said. "It was fun to get outside of your shell a little bit and do something different."

Oregon coach Mike Bellotti got a kick out of the scene and said he wants his players to enjoy their experience this week - but obviously not too much. Bellotti said the team has a 2 a.m. curfew Wednesday night, a 1 a.m. curfew Thursday night and a midnight curfew on Friday night.

"Unless somebody screws up and then there won't be anybody going out," said Bellotti, adding that the players aren't allowed to cross the nearby border into Mexico.